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Mathews-Williams Family Genealogy
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George Washington Campbell received an A.B. degree at Princeton in 1794; was a member of Congress 1803-1809; U.S. District Judge; U.S. Senator from Tennessee 1811-1814, 1815-1818; Secretary of the Treasury in President Madison's cabinet; and Minister to Russia, 1818-1821.
"George Washington Campbell, a Representative and a Senator from Tennessee; born in the parish Tongue, Sutherlandshire, Scotland, February 9, 1769; immigrated with his parents to North Carolina in 1772; taught school; was graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1794; sutdied law while teaching; was admitted to the bar in North Carolina and commenced practice in Knoxville, Tenn.; elected as a Republican to the Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Congresses (March 4, 1803 - March 3, 1809); Chairman, Committee on Ways and Means (Tenth Congress); one of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives in January 1804 to conduct impeachment proceedings against John Pickering, judge of the United States District Court for New Hampshire, and in December of the same year against Samuel Chase, Associate Justice of the Supreme of the Supreme Court of the United States; judge of the State Supreme Court of Errors and Appeals 1809-1811; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Jenkin Whiteside and served from October 8, 1811 to February 11, 1814, when he resigned; appointed Secretary of the Treasury in the Cabinet of President James Madison and served from February to October 1814, when he resigned because of ill health; again elected as a Republican to the Untied States Senate and served from October 10, 1815, until his resignation, effective April 20, 1818; Chairman, Committee on Finance (Fifteenth Congress); Minister to Russia 1818-1821; member of the French Spoliation Claims Commission in 1831; died in Nashville, Tennessee, February 17, 1848; interment in the City Cemetery." (source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress).
Rev. James Craik, D.D., LL. D., studied law, and was admitted to the bar Nov. 26, 1828, practicing at Charleston, Kanawha Co., VA. After ten years' practice he studied theology and was ordained a Deacon in the P.E. Church, by Bishop William Meade, D.D. of Virginia, Dec 4 1839, at Charlottesville, and Priest by the same at Alexandria, 1841; Recor of St. John's Church, Charleston, VA, 1839-44; Christ Church, Louisville, Ky, 1844-82; Member Standing Committee of Kentucky, 1845-1882; Deputy to the Gen'l Convention, 1846-1882, and President of that Body, 1865-1874, presiding always with marked ability and unabating popularity. He was author of several works on theology that have had a world-wide circulation. Of these were "Old and New," 1860; "The Divine Life and New Birth", 1866. (Source: "Virginia Genealogies", Hayden, p. 342;)
Col. Henry Ashton, was a Burgess for Westmoreland County, Virginia in the assemblies of 1702, 1703, 1705 and 1715. He was a Colonel and Justice of the Peace. He was sheriff in Westmoreland County, VA in 1717-18.
Catherine Tayloe married Captain William Bronaugh, of Stafford Co., Va., who moved to Kanawha and was the father of a numerous family, the most of whom lived in Missouri.
Warren Carter Bronaugh died in infancy.